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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8081968 | System for creating an air-to-ground IP tunnel in an airborne wireless cellular network to differentiate individual passengers The Aircraft Air-To-Ground IP Tunnel System provides wireless communication services to passengers located onboard an aircraft by storing data indicative of the individually identified passenger wireless devices located onboard the aircraft. The Aircraft Air-To-Grou... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7953408 | Message transmission system using an area address to transmit messages A sender of a message can transmit a message to an unspecified user merely by specifying a condition of space without specifying a recipient of the message, using an information processing terminal transmitting a message not with a user address to specify a user but... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7796986 | Modification of transmission values to compensate for interference in a satellite down-link communications Methods of compensating for interference in communications in a satellite communications system are provided. At a first radioterminal, a measure of an error in communications received through a first service down-link from a satellite is generated. A communications... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7489927 | Method and system for object tracking and communication A system and method for communicating between ground stations and mobile satellites effectively eliminates the need for transferring information from one ground station to another. Communication between a ground station and a mobile satellite is accomplished via an ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7428406 | Data transfer method for halting communication of data when a transfer gap is detected A data transfer method via a packet oriented channel and a continuous channel in parallel between a mobile station and a base station, where the transfer via the continuous channel is interrupted whereby at least one transfer gap is formed. ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428405 | Automatic operation system and method for automating satellite control operation and satellite ground control system using the same Provided are an automatic operation system for automating satellite control operation, a method thereof, and an automatic satellite ground control system using the same. The object of the present research is to provide an automatic operation system that can reduce o... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418263 | Systems and methods for handover between space based and terrestrial radioterminal communications A satellite communications system includes a satellite that is configured to wirelessly communicate with radioterminals in a satellite coverage area over a satellite frequency band, and an ancillary terrestrial component that is configured to wirelessly communicate ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418236 | Extraterrestrial communications systems and methods including ancillary extraterrestrial components A system for communications on an extraterrestrial body may include a space-based component and an ancillary extraterrestrial component on the extraterrestrial body. The space-based component may be configured to provide wireless communications with a plurality of r... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7376417 | Method and system of efficient spectrum utilization by communications satellites A satellite system includes a plurality of orbit slots having a first orbital and a second orbital slot. A first satellite occupies a first orbital slot and generates a first set of uniform beams. A second satellite located in a second orbital slot generates a secon... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376418 | System and method for multiple access control in satellite communications system A satellite communications system (10) includes a hub (14), a satellite (32), and any number of remote terminals (16). Each remote terminal (16) includes a remote receiver (38), a monitor (40), and a network access co... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373085 | Hybrid satellite and fiber communications system A communication system employing optical fibers and a high data rate satellite is utilized to provide high-speed Internet access to various geographic regions. In one aspect, a first teleport station is located geographically separated from a first user. The first t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372819 | Adaptive packet routing A method of determining the latency of a route in a packet-switched network, a packet switch for use in such a method and network and a packet-switched network are disclosed. Preferably, each switch maintains a routing table that records the latency of the routes ac... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369847 | Fixed cell communication system with reduced interference A communication system has a high altitude communication device that has an antenna for directing beams to a fixed cell pattern with a polarity of cells. A specific pattern of cells having the same communication resource is provided. Preferably, cells having the sam... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369809 | System and method for continuous broadcast service from non-geostationary orbits A method, apparatus for providing at least near continuous broadcast services to one or more terrestrial receiver stations is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of satellites, each satellite in an inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbit, each satellite pr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366463 | Military UHF and commercial Geo-mobile system combination for radio signal relay A radio signal relay device such as satellite is used to cover several relatively small geographical regions with relatively narrow beams as well as a relatively large geographical region with a single beam. This relatively wide beam permits legacy equipment to be u... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349712 | Communications system with transmitting power control and method for the same One power control means 14 controls a transmitting power according to a control command to a mobile terminal which accesses one task when radio communication is performed with the mobile terminals in the corresponding sector, and a power control unit 15 | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330661 | Method and apparatus for optical communication between devices A method and apparatus for processing a data signal for transmission to a remote device transmits at least two synchronized copies of the data signal, in optical form, in different directions. To that end, the data signal first is synchronized to a clock signal to p... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327989 | Dual channel two-way satellite communication The present invention relates to a system, device and method for two-way satellite communication using a dual channel communication configuration to make better use of limited bandwidth. The two channels include a dedicated Unicast channel for each remote VSAT termi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328012 | Aircraft communications system and related method for communicating between portable wireless communications device and ground An aircraft communications system includes a wireless local area network (LAN) access point positioned within the aircraft that receives and transmits wireless communications to and from at least one portable wireless communications device. A control panel is operat... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324045 | System and method for fast initialization of navigational satellite signal receivers The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a satellite navigation receiver to lock onto satellite signals in the cold start mode with no information on the receiver position, the satellite position, or time estimates stored in the receiver's memory. A... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317916 | Stratospheric-based communication system for mobile users using additional phased array elements for interference rejection A communication system has a stratospheric platform with a payload controller and a phased array antenna having a plurality of main array elements for generating a plurality of communication beams and a plurality of auxiliary elements for canceling interference betw... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313143 | Method for diversity site group operations in air/ground communications Shortcomings in conventional Very High Frequency (VHF) Digital Link Mode 3 (VDL-3) communication techniques for implementing air/ground (A/G) diversity site group (DSG) communication are identified and resolved. Beacon schedules are used to coordinate the use of VDL... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302226 | Combined fixed satellite service and mobile platform satellite service communication system A communication system for a mobile platform satellite service (MPSS) system includes a receiver subsystem (RS) and a transmitter subsystem (TS). A satellite transponder is in communication with the RS and the TS of the mobile platform. A satellite service ground st... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292851 | Communication support system, information processing terminal, radiotelephone network, message server, and recording medium A sender of a message can transmit a message to an unspecified user merely by specifying a condition of space without specifying a recipient of the message, using an information processing terminal transmitting a message not with a user address to specify a user but... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286503 | System and apparatus for avoiding interference between fixed and moveable base transceiver station Apparatus for providing telephone connection between one or more cellular radio telephones and a cellular radio switching system, comprises at least one moveable base transceiver station (511) for providing a radio connection with the cellular radio telephone... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286824 | Method for controlling data transmission rate in interactive satellite communication system A method for controlling data transmission rate in order to save waste of resources due to Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) region when a mobile terminal passes through the NLOS region in an interactive satellite communication system is disclosed. The method includes the st... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280825 | Aircraft in-flight entertainment system including low power transceivers and associated methods An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system includes an antenna, an external communications transceiver connected to the antenna for communicating external the aircraft, and a plurality of seat electronic boxes (SEBs) spaced throughout the aircraft for distribu... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275113 | Dynamic network address configuration system and method A dynamic network address registration system and method. In one embodiment, the present invention is comprised of a first device which is adapted to communicate over a communications network. The present invention is a also comprised of a second device which is ada... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274908 | Method, apparatus, and system for demand assignment in a communication network A demand assignment method for a communication network including a hub and a plurality of user nodes includes adding a demand field to each data burst from a user node. Further, the method includes transmitting a first and second frame with first and second burst ti... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260391 | Satellite mobile telephone cell departure prediction A mobile station (4) in a satellite mobile telephone system predicts when it will move into another cell on the basis of one set of broadcast information thereby reducing the overall processing burden. The mobile station (4) can predict with a useful d... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257371 | Method, apparatus, and system for using a synchronous burst time plan in a communication network A communication network control method for a communication network including a hub and a plurality of user nodes includes adjusting system parameters to maximize communication data rate and minimize bit error rate given current conditions of the wireless channel, cu... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257611 | Distributed nonstop architecture for an event processing system Methods and architectures for implementing a fault tolerant real time event processing system are provided. The system includes at least one satellite and at least one primary data center. The system remains operational when the primary data center is unavailable to... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7245908 | Method and entity for processing communications based on altitude A method and system for processing communications based on altitude is provided. When a network receives a request to connect a communication to or from a mobile station, the network will determine the mobile station's current altitude. The network can make this det... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236858 | Flight mode system for personal electronic device A personal communications device includes a processor, a plurality of subsystems connected to the processor for exchanging signals therewith, at least one of the subsystems being configurable between a flight mode and a non-flight mode, an input device connected to ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7215954 | Resource allocation method for multi-platform communication system A mobile wireless communications system including a plurality of individual transponding nodes of various types, all in communication with a central processing hub. A local user signal is processed by the central processing hub and radiated through multiple paths to... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7200360 | Communication system as a secondary platform with frequency reuse A communications system (10) and method of operating the communications system includes a first stratospheric platform generating a second beam having a frequency the same as a satellite beam to the same service area. User terminals are configured to receive ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187690 | Method of maximizing use of bandwidth for communicating with mobile platforms A system and method for switching between transmission modes provides more efficient use of available bandwidth. A content delivery system determines, based upon a predetermined limit, whether to broadcast content to a plurality of mobile platforms or unicast the da... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184761 | Satellite communications system A communication system has a plurality of ground stations for communicating communication signal to a plurality of satellites located in an inclined elliptical sub-geosynchronous orbit with respect to the earth. The plurality of satellites operate in a service area ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181160 | Method and apparatus for providing a signal to passengers of a passenger vehicle A system that provides information to a second passenger vehicle, to create an information network between the second passenger vehicle and an information source, the system including a first transmitter/receiver unit disposed on a first passenger vehicle and adapte... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171463 | System and method for denoting and communicating with computer network mobile sites A system for, and method of, denoting and communicating with a computer network site and a computer network incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an address parser that makes a determination of whether the site is a mobi... | 01/30/2007 |
